RE: Compound bow - set up question
 

No, the illustration that Bry presents is accurate, rudimentary but accurate. What it doesn't show is nock travel would create a line compensating for the arch the arrow must travel to drop into the target. If you followed the arrow path in flight with a line, nock travel would would rise because the bow/arrow is angled up, not nock to rest but because human influence.

RE: Compound bow - set up question
 

Yesalong with air resistance.

RE: Compound bow - set up question
 

I'll address these questions individually as soon as I finish the equation Binary/FOC with a square root of KE minus FPS squared. I almost have it worked out.

RE: Compound bow - set up question
 

True dat. :)

RE: Compound bow - set up question
 

Of course it would. You can always draw a straight line between 2 points.

My question is.....we're compensating for the line of the arrow (it would seem, to me) by the line through the peep, 20yd pin and target (at 20yds) pointing in a downward line.

So.....would THAT (alone) compensate for the arrow NOT having to be in a straight line to the target? I'm simply asking.

RE: Compound bow - set up question
 

Hey look its my Nova! I feel so special.

RE: Compound bow - set up question
 

If you held your arrow perfectly level and released it, it would never rise, only drop. (assuming your nock point is level and your bow has perfectly horizontal nock travel).

When you are aiming at targets at a distance, of course you have to aim higher to compensate for gravity. In that case, the arrow does initially rise. But thats only because you are pointing it slightly skyward.

RE: Compound bow - set up question
 

Air resistance has no effect on the FLIGHT PATH of the arrow...only the speed. Imagine a world with air, but no gravity. Your arrow would slow down, but never fall.

RE: Compound bow - set up question
 

Then why do bowhunters use flu-flus when pheasant hunting? How can you say that air resistance has no effect of the flight path of an arrow? If that was true, you should be able to use Flu Flu fletch and Blazers at 80 yards and they would have the same flight path.

RE: Compound bow - set up question
 

Using Matt/PA's example......of the arrow line and the sight line meeting at 8yds (+/-....it really makes no difference where these lines meet....as long as we agree they DO "meet" at a relatively short distance.....prior to 20yds)........It would seem, to me, that the lines intersect at 8yds (naturally;)).

My question, again.....is...is the line thorugh the nocking point....the arrow tip....and the target at 20yds a straight, levelline.....and "compensation" made by the arrow drop beyond the 8yd intersection point?

Again....it would seem, to me, that the line from the eye.....through the peep.......through the 20 yd pin.....to the spot at 20yds.....HAS to be "straight".